Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-03-24

absolutely refused to touch her mothers
property. Runyon invested IL and it
continued 10 increase and multiply.
Judge Strong began search for her
husband and son. The former had
died. The latter was found TO be a
western farmer and was brought on 10
New Brunswick to see his mother.
Then began another mystery. The
woman who had been so anxious TO
find her son absolutely refused 10
listen to him, he says, when he asked
her to receive the money. When he
pleaded with her to leave old Sammy
Denmead and live with him she ut
terly refused. Strangely enough, she
never mentioned the fact that she had
seen her son. He was more dead to
her from that moment than before he
was found. This has led 10 the SUD
position that he never went near his
mother. Indeed, it a stated that his
counsel, finding her position in the
matter, told him TO go back. At any
rate he was in the city an hour, and
then disappeared again.
In 1875 Dir. Runyon died aud Charles
Runvon, his son, and Z. p. Runyon,
his grandson, became executors. They
Immediately applied to Judge Strong
and he filed bill in chancery asking
that either Mrs. Denmead be compelled
TO receive the money or that it revert
to the court. This proved effective,
and the original $1,000, with its long
accommodating interest, vas paid to Mrs.
Denmead. With this money and some
more of Sammy's the stubble-bin man
sion and al its grounds were purchased.
Jt is lucky for the heir who has now
turned up that this was done, for had
the legacy remained in bonds and not
in real estate decided personally to Mrs.
Denmead he would never have received
Il except by contesting Sammys claim
TO being Mrs. Denmeed's husband.
When he arrived in New Brunswick
Yesterday Mr.. Ayres, now man OF
forty-seven, consulted with Judge
Strong. he Immediately left for New
York TO stay with his aunt, Mrs. jean
nette Snyder, of lG5 First avenue. He
saw nobody else at New Brunswick,
although there were others beside his
lawyers who were anxious to see the
man who claimed TO be the kidnapped
son of Cornelia Ayres. Among these
were the Brindages, including the aged
sister of Mrs. Denmead, who have
already engaged counsel and fled their
claim TO the estate.
Sammy and John Denmead were TO
have been released from Jail yesterday,
and Messrs. MacSherry and Berdine,
their lawyers, had prepared the stable
on the old place for them. The APP
pearance of Thomas Ayres put sum
mary stop to the proceeding, and the
Denmeads were returned to the Jail just
as they were being dressed to go out of
the door. The lawyers are two very
Disguised men. They have been going
through the rot and dirt OF the case,
and now, Just as the money part has
come, are thrown overheard and re-
placed by Mr.. Strong, and this in spite
of the fact that they searched for Ayres,
hired a special agent, found him in his
home st Sunnydale, and brought him
TO New Brunswick. d" That's what |
call gratitude, said MIR. Ber.line, with
a WY face.'
Mr.. Ayres lad not put in an APP
pearance at his aunts residence at a
late hour last night. A letter received
by her from his step-brother, George
x. Ayes, today says that when Thomas
came to New York from his Kansas
home in 1871 he did visit his mother,
Mrs. Denmoad-Ayres, but the letter
gives no further information. From
the aunt-in-law OF the heir it was
learned that the officially between
William Ayres end his wife was
one OF mother-in.law. The wife's
mother was the well-to-do Mrs. Good
fellow. and she so disliked her son-in-
law that she once threatened to poison
him. He sold his New Jersey farm,
Mrs. Ayers went back to her mother,
and William, taking his son with him,
came to New York. In few years a
divorce was obtained, and William
married an Albany lady and moved
with her and his son to Lacon, ILL.,,
where he died some twenty-five years
ago